anchoret
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of anchoret
1735–45; variant of anchorite, with final vowel directly reflecting Late Latin or Late Greek spelling
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The bishops commended her to God and left the palace, and prayer was made that she should bear a male child; for we believed in the words of Saint Procopius the anchoret.
From Women of Early Christianity by Alfred Brittain
He has lived for the last forty years in a house in Westminster, overlooking the Park, like an anchoret in his cell, reducing law to a system, and the mind of man to a machine.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt
He bends, and gazes yet Before his ghastly bride! the anchoret Sate by him, and hath press'd a cross of wood To his wan lips.
From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Andrew Lang
Sometimes the pair rose up to sing, Surrounded by a holy ring, Where seated on the grass had met Full many a musing anchoret.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
We monks pray by day, but the anchoret prays by night.
From The Christian A Story by Sir Hall Caine
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